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| (1) No person shall be admitted as a member of the Council-
| | (a)if he has been adjudged by a competent court, whether in Sri Lanka or elsewhere, to be of unsound mind; | | |
| | (b) if having been adjudged an insolvent or bankrupt by a competent court, whether in Sri Lanka or else where, he has not been granted by such court a certificate to the effect that his insolvency or bankruptcy has arisen wholly or partly from unavoidable losses or misfortune; or | | |
| | (c) if he has been convicted by a competent court, whether in Sri Lanka or elsewhere, of any prescribed offence or of any offence involving moral turpitude and punishable with imprisonment or similar punishment, and has not been granted a free pardon. | | |
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| (2) The Board shall disenrol any member who becomes. subject to any of the disqualifications specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of this section : |
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| (3) The Board shall disenrol any member who in its opinion has been guilty of professional misconduct: |
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| (4) The Board shall not disenrol, suspend from membership, or reprimand any member under the preceding provisions of this section, unless a Disciplinary Committee appointed by the Board has after inquiry, made a report to the .Board that such member has become subject to any of the after said disqualifications or has been guilty of professional misconduct |
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| | (a) Where a Disciplinary Committee appointed by the Hoard is of the opinion that the evidence of any person or the production by any person of any document pertaining to any person or organization would be relevant to, or necessary for, such inquiry, it shall have the power by a notice in writing to require such person to attend at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, in order to give evidence or to produce such document. | | |
| | (b) A Disciplinary Committee appointed by the Board shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations to all persons who are required to give evidence before such Committee, and any person who wilfully gives false evidence upon oath or affirmation. shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. | | |
| | (c) Any person who, having been served with a notice under paragraph (a) of this subsection, fails or refuses without reasonable cause to attend or to give evidence or to answer any question or to produce any document referred to in such notice or to be sworn or affirmed, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act : | | |
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| (6)
| | (a) Any person who is aggrieved by the decision of the Board under subsection (3) may appeal against the decision to the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister, within, fourteen days of the date on which such decision is communicated to him. | | |
| | (b) The Secretary may on any appeal under paragraph (a)-
| | | (1) allow the appeal and direct the Board to-
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| | (a) The member who is aggrieved by the decision of the Secretary disallowing his appeal, may appeal against such decision to the Court of Appeal. | | |
| | (b) Until rules are made under Article 136 of the Constitution pertaining to appeals under this section, the rules made under that Article pertaining to application by way of revision to the Court of Appeal shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to appeals under paragraph (a). | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts